Patent 7117302

Assignment history

Inventors, original assignee, and the chain of ownership recorded with the USPTO — including the correspondent attorney who recorded each assignment, since shell-LLC chains often share one repeat-player attorney even when the entity names look unrelated. Surfaces NPE / patent-troll patterns: shell-entity transfers, known asserters in the chain, repeat correspondent fingerprints, pre-litigation assignments, and bankruptcy fire-sales.

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Ownership chain (3)

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Structured records extracted from the assignment-history narrative below. Each entity links to its full ownership-network profile.

  1. 2005-05-02 · recorded 2005-05-12 · reel 016215/0733 · Assignment of Assignors Interest

    Lundeby, Bruce A.; Zhang, Lin; Henry, RaymondHEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, L.P., TEXAS

    original assignment

  2. 2011-10-25 · recorded 2012-02-06 · reel 027661/0258 · Assignment of Assignors Interest

    HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, L.P.; HEWLETT-PACKARD COMPANYGOOGLE INC., CALIFORNIA

    acquisition

  3. 2017-09-29 · recorded 2017-10-05 · reel 044127/0735 · Change of Name

    GOOGLE INC.GOOGLE INC., CALIFORNIA

    change of name only

Assignment history

Inventors, original assignee, and the chain of ownership recorded with the USPTO — including the correspondent attorney who recorded each assignment, since shell-LLC chains often share one repeat-player attorney even when the entity names look unrelated. Surfaces NPE / patent-troll patterns: shell-entity transfers, known asserters in the chain, repeat correspondent fingerprints, pre-litigation assignments, and bankruptcy fire-sales.

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Inventors

  • Bruce A. Lundeby (Hewlett-Packard Development Co LP)
  • Lin Zhang (Hewlett-Packard Development Co LP)
  • Raymond Henry (Hewlett-Packard Development Co LP)

There are no unusual patterns indicating inventors departing the original assignee around the filing date.

Original assignee

Hewlett Packard Development Co LP. Hewlett-Packard (HP) is a major American multinational information technology company that designs, develops, and provides hardware components, software, and related services to consumers, small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs), and large enterprises, including products that would embody the claims related to computer systems and tape drives. Hewlett Packard Development Co LP is an operating entity and is still active.

Assignment timeline

A search on the USPTO Assignment Center for US patent 7117302 reveals the following assignment records:

  • 2005-05-02 to 2005-05-11 (executed) / recorded 2005-05-12 — Reel 016215/0733

    • Conveyance: Assignment of Assignors Interest
    • Assignor: Lundeby, Bruce A.; Zhang, Lin; Henry, Raymond
    • Assignee: HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, L.P., TEXAS
    • Correspondent: HEWLETT-PACKARD COMPANY, INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY ADMINISTRATION, P.O. BOX 272400, FORT COLLINS, CO 80527-2400.
    • Context: Original assignment from inventors to the original assignee.

  • 2011-10-25 (executed) / recorded 2012-02-06 — Reel 027661/0258

    • Conveyance: Assignment of Assignors Interest
    • Assignor: HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, L.P.; HEWLETT-PACKARD COMPANY
    • Assignee: GOOGLE INC., CALIFORNIA
    • Correspondent: GOOGLE INC. LEGAL DEPARTMENT, PATENTS, P.O. BOX 1007, MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIFORNIA 94042.
    • Context: Acquisition of patent rights by Google Inc.

  • 2017-09-29 (executed) / recorded 2017-10-05 — Reel 044127/0735

    • Conveyance: Change of Name
    • Assignor: GOOGLE INC.
    • Assignee: GOOGLE LLC, CALIFORNIA
    • Correspondent: GOOGLE LLC, 1600 AMPHITHEATRE PKWY, MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA 94043.
    • Context: Corporate name change of Google Inc. to Google LLC.

Timeline diagram

timeline
    title Ownership of US 7117302
    2005 : Inventors to Hewlett-Packard
    2006 : Patent issued
    2011 : Hewlett-Packard to Google Inc.
    2017 : Google Inc. name change to Google LLC

NPE / troll-pattern signals

  1. Shell-entity transfer — not present. The assignees, Hewlett-Packard Development Co LP and Google Inc./LLC, are known operating companies with extensive product lines.
  2. Known asserter in the chain — not present. Google LLC is an operating company and not a known NPE.
  3. Repeat correspondent across the chain — not present. The correspondents are associated with the respective operating companies (Hewlett-Packard Company and Google Inc./LLC Legal Departments) at the time of each assignment.
  4. Cascading transfers — not present. There are only three distinct transfers recorded, spread out over several years.
  5. Pre-litigation transfer — unclear. While Google (the current assignee) is involved in litigation, it's not possible to definitively state from these records alone whether this specific patent was transferred within six months before a lawsuit related to it.
  6. Bankruptcy fire-sale — not present. Neither Hewlett-Packard nor Google has undergone a bankruptcy fire-sale related to this patent.
  7. Privateering — not present. There is no indication in the assignment records or common knowledge that this patent was transferred to an NPE to assert on behalf of Hewlett-Packard or Google.
  8. Defensive aggregator (anti-NPE) — not present. The current assignee is Google LLC, an operating company, not a defensive aggregator.

Verdict

Insufficient data. While the patent is currently owned by Google LLC, a major operating company, the available assignment records alone do not provide sufficient information to definitively conclude an NPE pattern or a defensive aggregation. The transfers are consistent with normal corporate activity (initial assignment from inventors, and subsequent acquisition by another operating company).

USPTO Assignment Center search: https://assignmentcenter.uspto.gov/

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